Quotes About Inquiry

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Uproot your questions from the their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

Well now, whose feint am I?

When we think we know something, that's precisely the moment when we should look deeper into the thing.

When force closes the mouth of inquiry," Duncan said, "that is the death of civilization.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son.

But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

Asking questions were the most important thing.

Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.

Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.

Fragen war die Hauptsache

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My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.

I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

He who frames the question wins the debate.